Hybrid Machine Learning Approaches and Applications

 

Announcements:

  • The kickoff session will be on the 4th of November. Presence on that day is strictly mandatory. A link to the meeting will follow shortly.
  • You should have received an invitation to a “team” for the seminar in Microsoft Teams at DFKI. Join the team and the kick-off meeting. If you did have not received such an e-mail please contact us.
  • The presentations will start on the 2nd of December. The topics will be assigned during the Kickoff meeting
  • There is an open seat for the seminar. Contact us if you are interested!
  • Presentation dates are set. Check MS Teams for more details!

 

General Information

  • Offered by: UMTL (Chair of Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger)
  • Lecturers: Michael Feld, Guillermo Reyes, Amr Gomaa, Matthias Klusch
  • Location: Due to the COVID-19 crisis the seminar will take place online-only
  • Time: Wednesdays 10:00-12:00 
  • Credit Points: 7
  • Language: English
  • Places:12

 

Knowledge and Data together form the foundation of most AI systems: Symbolic or Semantic knowledge forms concepts and relations describing structures in a logical and human-interpretable way, allowing queries, reasoning, and inference. Sub-symbolic or Syntactic Data is little or non-structured sensor data, such as images or audio, that has high volume and is harder to interpret or program against by humans in their raw form. 

While there are often connections between them, they both have their own techniques for learning and adapting models, and this is done mostly separately today. Considering recent advances in deep learning, researchers are now reviewing existing and developing new methods for hybrid learning. where knowledge and data are used in conjunction to train inter-linked models that offer both the predictive strength and efficiency of data-based models, as well as the structure and transparency of knowledge-based models. 

In this seminar, we are going to review 

  • The current state of symbolic and sub-symbolic representation and learning methods 

  • Hybrid learning approaches where sub-symbolic training can be improved by symbolic knowledge and vice versa 

  • Models that merge symbolic and sub-symbolic parts 

  • Applications where hybrid learning provides benefits

 

Important dates

Attendance is mandatory (Let us know with enough time if an appointment does not work for you. Exceptions may require an official document). Otherwise, you won't pass the seminar.

DateDescription
 04.11.2020 Kickoff Meeting 
 2.12.2020 Learning like humans with Deep Symbolic Networks
 2.12.2020 Object-Oriented Deep Learning
 9.12.2020 The neuro-symbolic concept learner: Interpreting scenes, words, and sentences from natural supervision
 16.12.2020 Deep k-Nearest Neighbors: Towards Confident, Interpretable and Robust Deep Learning
 16.12.2020 Hybrid-Learning-Based Classification and Quantitative Inference of Driver Braking Intensity of an Electrified Vehicle
 13.01.2021 Semi-supervised active learning for sound classification in hybrid learning environments
 13.01.2021 Joint Deep Network with Auxiliary Semantic Learning for Popular Recommendation
 20.01.2021 Modular multitask reinforcement learning with policy sketches
 20.01.2021 Explainable Observer-Classifier for Explainable Binary Decisions

Important Note: 

Due to the tremendously increasing interest in the future-oriented AI research area of hybrid learning and reasoning, we decided to offer more places for students by the twin seminars HyLEAR (Hybrid Learning and Reasoning) and HMLA (Hybrid Machine Learning Approaches and Applications) with complementary topics in this area. We highly recommend all interested participants to register for both twin seminars in the SIC seminar assignment system (you will be assigned effectively to one of both but can visit the other).
 
More info on our twin seminar HyLEAR: http://www.dfki.de/~klusch/HyLEAR-seminar-ws20